Sarah Silverman and Andy Borowitz Discuss Donald Trump

Donald Trump is many things, but subtle is not one of them. At The New Yorker Festival last weekend, the comedian Sarah Silverman sat down with Andy Borowitz to discuss how Trump spent more than thirty years as a “loudmouth and a jackass” before becoming the Republican nominee for President. Trump’s noxious brand of patriotism, to Silverman, is somewhat refreshing. “He's kind of great in the way that it’s great when you see anti-Semitism out in the open," she said. "When Mel Gibson said that stuff about Jews, Jews loved that, because it's something that you can point to, and not just this gas in the air.”

The alternative is someone like Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, who Silverman said is “terrifying” but comes off great on television. With Trump, Silverman added, "it’s there and it’s real and it’s tangible, and hopefully that will be a good thing.” She paraphrased her therapist. “ ‘Darkness cannot exist in the light.’ Or, as Mr. Rogers says, ‘If it’s mentionable, it’s manageable.’ ”